THE SUEZ: The Crisis Turns

The threat of force all but disappeared
from the Suez crisis last week, and a Western strategy of massive but
peaceful pressure took its place.

The U.S., Great Britain and France, who had seemed to be moving in
divergent directions, came together in a united plan. They confronted
Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser with the chance to back down from his
West-flouting seizure of the Suez Canal or the risk of exposing his
impoverished nation to an economic squeeze. The new approach to the
crisis was the West's "users' plan," sketched out by U.S. Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles, and presented...